Nordik wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:Nordik wrote:nietzsche wrote:BBS has a point, if prostitution was legal, we would have cheaper, safer and better quality prostitutes. Prostitutes would have safer jobs as well.
The law was there, the lawyers knew how to use it.
Not to mention less human trafficking. And less people being forced into it in general. As well as a bunch of other rather large issues.
I have yet to see a decent argument for keeping prostitution illegal.
You sound like a libertarian. You might want to clean your fingertips after typing all of that.
I do not fall into your American categories. I'm European left wing. Relatively far left at that.
Even Aquinas (or Augustine?) supported the legalization of prostitution. If you had to shove him into a meaningless left-right dichotomy, then you'd call libertarians and Augustine right-wing. Of course, that wouldn't mean much, but it may help to reinforce your "us v. them" mentality.
Anyway, can you divulge more about your ideology? How are you on war, drugs, monetary policy, health care, insurance, financial exchange, pollution, courts, policing, etc.?